Time To Start Bringing them in.

19 years ago

Hi all, well its been a long hard season for me and now its nearing the end and I have to get things ready to dig up for over wintering I had three sorry Brown or Chocolate habanero's that I what to keep as they have just started to put out pods, because of all the problems that I had. these are about the only peppers I want to overwinter as I have gotten enough seeds of my other peppers that I can just start over with them. and besides that I have about fifteen tropical plants that have to come in. I refuse to leave my Passiflora's and flowering Gingers outside this time no matter how big they are although they will put me to the test. Next year I hope to have better luck with my peppers that I have which won't be a lot. I do have a Rocoto, a C.eximium and a C. cardenasii that I will be overwintering. I don't have enough seeds from them to trade out yet, so I'm hoping that next year I will get a better crop of pods from them.

I have a C.galapagoense cross that I saved the best seeds from the plants they where really hardy and grew to nearly four feet tall with hundreds of pea sized pods that were very hot, the green pods had a purple cast one the sunny side of the pod and had a slight bitter taste that I found a little disagreeable, but they made great pickled peppers although it takes forever to hand pick the ripe pods with out killing the plants. If they were bigger I would put news paper under them then shake the bushes till the ripe pods fell off I did this with a C. praetermissum and it worked very well for collecting the pods. I'm hoping to finde a few seeds of some more rare peppera and perhaps a big Chocolate Hab or Chocolate congo that is very big come pared to its normal size. I may try to do some grafting and try mutating some with colchicine if i can find some it is a very strong mutegen so hopefully it will work.

George w. Z5-6 MO.

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dangould
19 years ago
I am having an amazing long fall. only a few light frosts so far and not killing freezes and I am north of you.

I never grew an exotic. Sounds like you had some real good interesting peppers to try out.

I have read about colchicine and I think it is just too dangerous to use. it also does not work real well. It kills most and the ones that live do not give useful mutations. I think there are plenty of cool genetics available right now in peppers without resorting to colchicine. Just my opinion.
User
19 years ago
I too am having a very long fall. No frost yet but it's been very close so I have brought a lot inside to help them ripen up and they are all over the place. Luckily my wife is very tolerant of my antics.

kitchen

hall

living room

dining room

more dining room

back bedroom
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naturegirl_2007 5B SW Michigan
19 years ago
Oh my goodness, fiedlermeister. That is amazing. How many are there in all? The living room is espeically interesting. Are some under skylights? Don't think my DH would understand if I brought in half that number! But I don't have any that are all that special anyway. Plus fall in Michigan has been very mild and none have been lost to frost yet. They just keep ripening and some no longer have any pods.
User
19 years ago
About 70 plants-no sky lights but our house has lots of windows. They really don't need much light just to ripen them up--after that I chuck most of them
liznbeatle
19 years ago
Hey John,
You are soon going to need another house just for the peppers:) Nice pics, now I can show those to my hubby when he complains about my five or six plants being in the way:):) Lisa
georgew79
Original Author
19 years ago
Great Photo's John, I've got every thing in now as we could get frost anytime now and there is no way that I would trust them out side now. At anyrate My tropical plants can't take below 40F. If it will warm up enough I'll take them back out. I have so much going on now I can hardly keep up with my studies on the wild Capscium species. I been trying to make contact with a seed Co. in Korea but so far no luck with them, also I have to set up two big over head lights so my plants will have enough light to keep them going all winter.
George W. Z5-6 Mo.
User
19 years ago
We had a frost last night-actually quite late for here- but it's all over for the outside plants now and down to finishing up on those inside and a few in the garage--something has to give--some will go out so those in the garage can come in.
dangould
19 years ago
I had a bit of a non killing frost Friday morning. This is very late for me. But Sunday night it will be all over. A real cold snap is moving in. Sunday night is definitely the end. I have almost everything in the garage now. I plan on bringing them outdoors for as long as possible and then into the house for good.

It is too much work to take them in and out of the house. It is fairly easy to take them into and out of the garage. So once they go into the house that will be it for the winter.